OCTOBER 12 THE JESUS QUESTIONS JQ#30 “Do you not see all these things?” (Matthew 24:02)

 

OCTOBER 12  THE JESUS QUESTIONS  JQ#30

 “Do you not see all these things?”  (Matthew 24:02)

LIVING FOR JESUS -Daily Prayer    

JESUS, You are my God, Lord, and Savior. Teach my soul 

to “be still and know that You ARE God”! Lord, I plead daily for 

Your Mercy for daily I fall short in my walk and in my service to You 

but continually I turn and I know You are the Great and Faithful I AM. 

Your Promises are true and Your Grace is everlasting. 

YOU ARE THE ONLY SHELTER for all the storms of life and 

only through belief and faith in Your Resurrection is there any

 Hope for mankind. 

I praise You and the Father and the Holy Spirit — 

Blessed Trinity!   

AMEN

THE JESUS QUESTIONS

Jesus has asked another of His Masterful Questions that not only

 Teach God’s Truth for the “circumstance” to which it was 

originally spoken but His Questions are “universal” in their application — 

His Lessons are God’s Truth and as such are ONE and the same

 and both therefore ARE EVERLASTING! Jesus has been a

 Living Testimony to the Grace, Mercy, and 

Power of God and the Holy Trinity 

and now His disciples are about to see the culmination of the 

Prophecy concerning the Messiah. 

Soon Jesus will take His Place on the Cross at Calvary and complete

 God’s Plan of Salvation 

that was determined even before the dawn of Creation! 

God has spoken through His Prophets and has led His Chosen People

 to the Promised Land by other Prophets like Moses and Joshua 

and now Jesus is going to “Fulfill past Prophecy” and in this section

 introduced by this Divinely Inspired Question, 

“Do you not see all these things?” (Matthew 24:2) 

Jesus, as the Son of God is giving a Divine Prophecy 

of the Future of God’s Chosen People which after 

His Death, Burial, and Resurrection 

will be extended to

 “whosoever believes in Him, shall not perish 

but will have life everlasting” (John 3:16) 

Jesus has just given His disciples a list of signs that 

“are the beginning of sorrows” (Matthew 24:8) 

and with these “signs”

 Jesus has warned all “believers” that the greatest issue 

in the future will be to avoid being “deceived” —

 for many will come and deny that Jesus IS the Messiah and these 

false prophets will put forth a “false gospel” which will lead men 

away from God and back to the “doctrines of men” which is the 

pathway to destruction of the body and the soul —

 souls that are “deceived” will deny Christ 

and reject God and be doomed to eternal torment in hell!!! 

The prophet Daniel in the 6th Century B.C. had prophesied the 

rise and fall of four great kingdoms of the earth from a dream 

that proved God is in control of the world and it is God that controls

 the rise and fall of nations and kingdoms.

 Scofield wrote of Daniel, 

“Daniel’s prophecy of the seventy “weeks” (‘sevens’) 

(vv. 24-27 [Daniel 9]) provides the chronological frame for 

Messianic prediction from Daniel to the establishment of 

the kingdom on earth and also a key to its interpretation…

The entire prophecy is concerned primarily with Daniel’s 

“people” (Israel) and their “holy city” (Jerusalem) … 

Two princes are mentioned; 

the first is named the “Messiah the Prince” (Daniel 9:25); 

the second is described as “the prince who is to come” (Daniel 9:26),

 a reference to the little horn of ch. 7:8, whose “people” destroy

 the rebuilt Jerusalem after the cutting off 

of the Messianic Prince. (Daniel 9:26)” 

(Taken from the Centennial edition of the Scofield Study Bible, 

The Holy Bible, New King James Version Copyright* 1982

 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. released by the 

Oxford University Press, New York, 2009) 

So Daniel had given the Messianic prophecy of the 

First and Second Coming of the Messiah and Jesus is now sitting 

in front of His disciples 600 years after Daniel wrote his prophecy

 and is both fulfilling the “First Coming of the Messiah” and is giving

 signs of His Second Coming. Jesus continues to describe how Daniel’s 

prophecy will play out as Jesus tells His disciples: 

“Therefore when you see the ‘abomination of desolation,’ 

spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place

 (whoever reads, let him understand), 

then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains.” 

(Matthew 24:16-17) 

By Jesus quoting Daniel to His disciples He was making it clear 

that He was fulfilling the prophecy of the "First Coming” 

and now the disciples can more clearly understand or

 “see all these things” 

including the destruction of the great temple of Solomon 

and the end of the age. 

One cannot read Holy Scripture without 

“seeing all these things” 

that are first revealed to the most powerful but Godless man

 on the earth in Daniel’s time through a prophet of God

 and then read about the fulfillment of prophecy in 

God’s Perfect Timing as nations rise and fall on God’s Schedule! 

We live at one of those “special times” in history and our generation

 is witnessing the fulfillment of those prophecies, some of which 

were written over 3000 years ago and we should be able to appreciate

 that the Holy Scriptures document both the writing and the fulfilling of 

God's Plan 

as we watch ancient prophecies being fulfilled in our daily world headlines! 

Surely this JESUS Question is as appropriate today 

as it was when Jesus first spoke it,

 “Do you not see all these things?”

 (Matthew 24:2)